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These new emoji are coming to your iPhone in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-21 11:59:01

Source: Emojipedia Today is World Emoji Day, and the organization that decides which new emoji your iPhone gets has announced this year’s latest crop. Here are the new emoji that will be added in an upcoming version of iOS 26. Have you ever wondered who decides which new emoji get added to your iPhone? It’s not Apple. Instead, it’s the job of the Unicode Consortium. Every year, the Unicode Consortium accept suggestions for new emoji to approve. After initial submissions, the group votes and d

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NYC's office-to-residential conversions could create 17,000 new homes

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Ginsburg 2025-07-21 11:27:44

Pfizer World Headquarters is becoming 1,500 apartments. Photo via WikiCommons New York City’s first wave of office-to-residential conversions could yield over 17,000 new apartments, highlighting the potential for such projects to help ease the city’s housing shortage, according to a new report. Published on Thursday by City Comptroller Brad Lander, the report finds that 44 office conversions initiated after the pandemic could transform 15.2 million square feet of office space into as many as 17

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80 Years After the Trinity Atomic Blast, New Mexico’s Downwinders May Finally See Reparations

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-07-21 11:55:56

Eighty years after the Trinity Test brought nuclear fallout to their communities, New Mexico residents living downstream of the test may finally be eligible for long-sought reparations. In the early hours of July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the world’s first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Radioactive ash soon began to fall over large swaths of the surrounding regions. Since then, survivors of the U.S. federal government’s nuclear testing progra

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Apple's New Emoji Game Gives You a Smiley Wordle Alternative

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 10:09:43

Do we 💖 this? Just in time for World Emoji Day, Apple News Plus has launched Emoji Game in another indication that we will never have enough digital toys to entertain and divert us. In the new game -- available in English for News Plus subscribers in the US and Canada -- players will try to fill in the blanks of three short phrases using a selection of emoji and genmoji using as few moves as possible. For example, if the phrase is "- - - - - of my - - -" ("Apple of my eye"), then you would use

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News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-21 11:32:06

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has “successfully secured” the removal of 12ft.io, a website that helped users bypass paywalls online. The trade association says 12ft.io’s webhost took down the site on July 14th “following the News/Media Alliance’s efforts.” 12ft.io — or 12 Foot Ladder —

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New Apple video comedically says: be careful what you remove from photos

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-21 15:40:24

Apple has just released a new video advertising Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 16, with one feature spotlighted: Clean Up. The humorous message of the video? Be careful what you remove from photos. Clean Up should not be used to remove beloved pets, says new ad Clean Up is an Apple Intelligence feature that lets you remove unwanted objects from photos. Available inside the Photos app, Clean Up lets you easily alter an image to get rid of any visual distraction that’s unwanted. But per Appl

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Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis

news.ycombinator.com Manuel Ansede 2025-07-21 15:21:16

A team of Spanish scientists made a striking announcement 15 years ago: they were seeking thousands of volunteers among the employees of Banco Santander in Madrid: researchers wanted to study them in depth for decades, in order to understand the onset of cardiovascular disease in healthy people. The results are even more surprising. Researchers have discovered that gut bacteria produce a molecule that not only induces but also causes atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fat and cholesterol in th

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Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 14:00:18

AI assistants are at their best when they let you go deeper in your thinking, keep your conversation flowing, and maintain contextual continuity. Today, we’re making Le Chat even more capable, more intuitive — and more fun — with a collection of powerful new features to help you research more thoroughly, express yourself more naturally, and keep your interactions — text, voice, and images — organized in context. What’s new in Le Chat. Deep Research mode: Lightning fast, structured research rep

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Apple's Emoji Game for News Plus Subscribers Could Be Your Latest Puzzle Obsession

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 14:28:24

Do we 💖 this? Just in time for World Emoji Day, Apple News Plus has launched Emoji Game in another indication that we will never have enough digital toys to entertain and divert us. In the new game -- available in English for News Plus subscribers in the US and Canada -- players will try to fill in the blanks of three short phrases using a selection of emoji and genmoji using as few moves as possible. For example, if the phrase is "- - - - - of my - - -" ("Apple of my eye"), then you would use

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Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to solve puzzles

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-21 03:00:00

Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other services has proven a successful strategy to attract users and keep them engaged, as The New York Times and even LinkedIn have dis

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Genmoji in iOS 26: Here’s every new feature coming soon

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-21 18:34:58

Genmoji launched last December in iOS 18.2 as a new Apple Intelligence feature for creating custom emoji. And in iOS 26, Apple has upgraded Genmoji with several new capabilities that will hit your iPhone soon. Here’s what’s new. New Genmoji upgrades are on the way in iOS 26 If you’ve used Genmoji much in iOS 18, you’ll know that the feature is both very freeing, but also has its limits. On one hand, Genmoji can expand the number of emoji options on your iPhone almost infinitely. But when it

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AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-21 19:04:22

AWS Summit 2025 at the Javits Center in NYC. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Forget the old Apple slogan, "Think different." For Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, the mantra of the future is "work differently," and the way he wants to do that is through agentic AI. "I think people get too hung up on the automation and efficiency, part of which are outcomes," said Singh. "We are working differently, but the way we are working different is making us more effective because [agents

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Trump Moves to Kill California’s Dreams of High-Speed Rail

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-07-21 19:20:52

President Donald Trump’s feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom is hitting the Golden State’s long-awaited high-speed train project with yet another setback. The U.S. The Transportation Department announced Wednesday that it is rescinding $4 billion in funding for a bullet train project that aims to connect Los Angeles with San Francisco. “Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled this waste for years,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy — a former cast member

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Starlink Just Rolled Out a $15-Per-Month Plan in New York, but You’ll Have to Qualify to Sign Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 18:00:00

Starlink has brought high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans for the first time. It’s also one of the most expensive internet service providers in the country. So, how is it available in New York for just $15 a month? If Starlink wants to sell internet in the state, it doesn’t have a choice. That’s thanks to the Affordable Broadband Act, a New York state law passed in January. Customers will still have to pay for $349 upfront, however, which will likely be an insurmountable cost for

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Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-07-21 19:05:45

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Elgato has released four new color options for its Stream Deck and other streaming accessories as part of a new Dreamscape collection designed to better match the aesthetic of a studio or gaming room. The devices and accessories have previously typically only been available in white or black, but are now available in forest green, pink petal, wil

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Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-07-21 19:21:38

French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing. The news comes a couple of days after Mistral released Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model that’s capable of reasoning in multiple languages, transcription, and more. Voxtral is also available via Le Chat. Mist

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Adobe's AI Videos Get Audio: Is It Better Than Google's Veo 3?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 22:00:00

New Adobe Firefly video updates are here to bring your AI-generated videos to the next level and to potentially keep the company competitive in the crowded AI market. You'll be able to add sound effects to your Firefly AI videos, thanks to a beta release of a new AI tool rolling out now, the company announced Thursday. It's the second major tech company to release such capabilities, following Google's Veo 3 launch in May. There are also a couple of other changes coming to Firefly video, includi

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Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-21 23:35:07

Spotify on Thursday announced an expansion of its premium audiobooks service, with two new plans that offer additional listening hours to subscribers, and allow other family members to access the service. The options are currently only available for Spotify Premium users in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, following initial tests in Ireland and Canada. U.S. users could already purchase 15 hours of

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How I started my own LinkedIn newsletter for free - in 5 easy steps

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-07-22 03:06:00

David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET It's been almost exactly two years since I launched my weekly Advanced Geekery email newsletter on Substack. Each week, I list my latest ZDNET articles, showcase any new videos I put out, sometimes spotlight projects I'm working on (and those of readers), and share a few great YouTube videos and articles worth reading. The newsletter is a great way for those who like my work to keep up with what I produce. Recently, I've started getting requests fo

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Dyson’s $500 headphones come in even more colors

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-07-22 03:00:00

Dyson is expanding the range of ear caps and cushions it offers for its customizable OnTrac headphones, with two new colors launching today for each. That doesn’t change the four default designs you’re able to pick from when buying the $499.99 OnTracs, but it does give existing owners new options to mix up the design. The cushions now come in “Sky Blue,” which was already available for ear caps, and “Caramel,” which is entirely new. Meanwhile, the caps are now available in “Ceramic Oyster Pink,

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Apple's Emoji Game is now out for News+ subscribers in the US and Canada

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 07:15:05

Apple has rolled out the Emoji Game exclusively for its News+ subscribers in the US and Canada, just in time for World Emoji Day. While the company originally announced the game for iOS 26 at WWDC earlier this year, the Emoji Game is now available to subscribers on iPhone, iPad and Mac running iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 or later, respectively. The game is similar to other word games out there like Wordle in that players would have to fill in the blanks to guess words and phrases. But l

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A US-Only TikTok Could Be Coming. What We Know So Far About the Replacement App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-22 05:33:03

A US-only version of the TikTok mobile app is being developed by the vertical video social media network's owner ByteDance. It will replace the current version of TikTok being used in the US ahead of a September deadline for the Chinese company to divest ownership, according to a report this week by The Information. The new app is codenamed "M2" and would launch on Sept. 5. Users in the US would be required to switch from the existing app to the new one, the report said, citing anonymous source

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Google Messages will soon tell you exactly what happened to sent messages (Updated: Beta rollout)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-22 15:45:04

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has discovered a new UI for the “view details” page in Google Messages. This option typically pops up when you long-press a message, giving you more information about it. The new UI will give you more detailed info about the message and recipients. Update, July 17, 2025 (06:45 AM ET): Google is rolling out the new UI to some users with the latest beta, as spotted by user Aniruddh. While we don’t yet have it on our device

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Google will announce its next lineup of Pixels on August 20 - Here's what we know

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-07-22 13:10:14

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The date has been set: Google's next "Made by Google" event will be held on Wednesday, August 20, at 1 p.m. EST. This news comes from industry insider Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, who posted a screenshot of the invitation on X and was later confirmed by the official Made by Google account. Also: The best Google Pixel phones to buy in 2025 There have been very few leaks this time around, so details are scarce, but Google is expected to follow tradition by revealing its new smartph

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It's World Emoji Day, So Celebrate With the Newest Emoji on Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-22 15:00:05

Every July 17, the internet comes together and celebrates World Emoji Day. The date was chosen because it's displayed on the 📅 calendar emoji, but it's a day to appreciate new and old emoji. And when Apple released iOS 18.4 in March, it brought some new emoji to all iPhones, including a tired-looking face with bags under its eyes -- which is just a superb emoji, in my opinion. The other new emoji include a harp, shovel and a paint splatter. Read more: An Expert's Guide to iOS 18 It's like I'm

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Apple News+ launches clever new ‘Emoji Game’ for iOS 18.4 and later

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-07-22 14:00:00

Apple is expanding its collection of Apple News+ Puzzles with yet another new game. This time, Apple is tapping into something we all know and love: emoji. The new Emoji Game was initially announced as part of iOS 26 at WWDC. The game, however, is now rolling out to all iPhone users running iOS 18.4 and later as well as iPadOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4. Apple explains that Emoji Game “challenges players to use a selection of emoji” to fill in the blanks of short phrases with as few moves as possible

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TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-22 17:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. TikTok will now let songwriters highlight tracks they’ve written or co-written directly on their profiles. The list of songs will live within the “Music” tab on their profile, similar to the one TikTok already offers for artists on the platform. Users who register as songwriters will also get a “Songwriter” label beneath their account name. These n

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Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to sovle puzzles

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-22 14:00:00

Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other services has proven a successful strategy to attract users and keep them engaged, as The New York Times and even LinkedIn have dis

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9to5Mac Daily: July 16, 2025- iPhone display rumors, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-07-22 18:24:22

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by 1Password: For a limited time, get $20 off the easiest way to stay secure online with 1Password—featuring a new passkey feature that lets you go passwordless on compatible apps and sites. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe

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Gaslight-driven development

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Prokopov 2025-07-22 15:26:56

Gaslight-driven development Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just part of the experience. Millions of people create accounts, confirm emails, dismiss notifications, solve captchas, reject cookies, and accept terms and conditions—not because they particularly want to or even need to. They do it because that’s what the computer told them to do. Like it or not, we are already serving the machines. Well, now there is a new way to serve

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These new emoji are coming to your iPhone in iOS 26

NYC's office-to-residential conversions could create 17,000 new homes

80 Years After the Trinity Atomic Blast, New Mexico’s Downwinders May Finally See Reparations

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Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis

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Trump Moves to Kill California’s Dreams of High-Speed Rail

Starlink Just Rolled Out a $15-Per-Month Plan in New York, but You’ll Have to Qualify to Sign Up

Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors

Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode

Adobe's AI Videos Get Audio: Is It Better Than Google's Veo 3?

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

How I started my own LinkedIn newsletter for free - in 5 easy steps

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